VOL. 12 NO. 39
JUNIOR CHAMPION Mary El
len Kettering, Lititz R 3, shewed Henket
Appollo -Ellen, a senior yearling, to
junior champion honors Wednesday, at
Ck)uiity Hc>lstein Showmen Stage
Comeback At S. E. District Meet
Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
HERSHEY - Lancaster Coun
ty captured the County Herd
title, Junior Champion Premier
Exhibitor Award, Junior Get of
Sire, first-place junior yearling,
first-place dry cow and first
place three-year-old cow here
Wednesday, in what must be
described as a very successful
day at the Southeastern' Penn
sylvania District Black and
White Show.
To climax the all-day affair,
held at the Sports J.
Mowery Frey, Jr„ 401 Beaver
Valley Pike, Lancaster; J. Rob
ert Hess, Strasburg Rl; Mary
Allen Kettering, Lititz R 3; and
Robert Kauffman, Elizabeth
town- HI put together six blue
ribbon county animals to best
Weather Break
Aids Field Work
HARRISBURG Pennsylva
nia farmers took advantage of
the recent dry weather the
first in two months to do
some catching up on field work
It was the best weather for
haymaking in several weeks
and' farmers tried to get as
much hay as possible into their
'barns
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Farm Calendar
August 28 - 28-30, NEPPCO
Turkey Tour to North Caro
lina area.
- 1 p.m., County FFA Star
Farmer interviews at Penn
Manor High School.
- 8 p.m., Manheim Adult
Farmer meeting to clarify
1967-68 program, at Manheim
Central High School.
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the Southeastern District Black and
White Show held at Hershey. Seventy
four entries from Lancaster competed
in the all-day show.
all others. According to judge
Richard Keene, “They had the
advantage of udders.”
Mary Ellen Kettering, 16-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Kettering, took top
individual honors when her
home-bred Henket Apollo El
len heifer won the junior cham
pion rosette. The tall senior
yearling, standing higher than
most cows in the show, is a
Hilltop Apollo Ivanhoe daugh
ter.
Another county teenage gill,
Susan Kauffman, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr and Mrs Rob
ert Kauffman, took a shareof
the honors when her Penn
springs Bill Topper was picked
first in the Junior Yearling
Heifer Class Topper, a daugh
ter of the home herd sire,
Lockway Lucifer Bill Ivanhoe,
joined three sisters later in the
day to give the Kauffman fam
ily the first-place Junior Get
of Sire.
And Oliverdale Inspiration
Terry, owned by Hess and
Kauffman, showed first in the
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Dechant Blames
City Riots On
Mass Migration
Mass migration to the cities
caused by low farm income
and neglect of rural commun-
ities was blamed this week for
this summer’s city riots by
Tony T. Dechant, national pres-
ident of Farmers Union
He told a banquet audience
at the Arkansas Farmers Un
ion convention that this rural
upheaval had sent 15 million
people into the cities since
1950, creating public service
and social problems city ad
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Lancaster Panning, Saturday, August 26,1967
Day-Haul Farm Labor
Now Available Here
Day-haul farm labor became
available in the area this week,
according to Bernard V. Kelly,
manager of the Lancaster of
fice of the State Employment
Service.
Kellv said his office is co
oneratmJ with county farmers
in SnducTine dav-haul
Sams tJ help meet harvesting
ContinuedX Pa 4 6)
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“AH QUARTER AND-AH-HALF,
AND-AH-HALF, SEVENTY-FIVE . . ”
The auctioneer’s song could be heard
Tuesday afternoon at the Lancaster
Union Stockyards as the 169 entries
Consigned to the 4-H Club Pig Show and
Sale were sold for an average price of
Eight FFA Boys Vie For
County Star Farmer Title
On Monday, August 28th, at
1 pm„ eight of Lancaster
County’s most outstanding Fu
ture Farmers will compete for
the title of County Star Farm
er for 1967.
Meeting at Penn Manor High
School, the boys will be inter
viewed by three judges, and
their records will be examined
Such factors as displayed lead
ership, project strength, and
other activities will be weighed
by the judges in choosing a
successor to last year’s Star
Farmer Robert Weaver of
Stianburg Rl. All of the boys
are holders of the Red Rose
Degree, the highest county
FFA award.
Judging the competition will
be: Richard Murr, coordinator
on the Vo-Tech program; Jay
W. Irwin, assistant county
agent; and Stanley Musselman,
vice president, Lancaster Coun
Bollinger, 4-H Hog Show Champ
by Eveiei.v 'i\e*s»v*u\ger
Staff Reporter
The grand champion Hamp
l shire pig at the annual Lancas
ter County 4-H Swine 'Show
| and Sale Tuesday, brought two
dollars per hundredweight more
than last year’s champion when
' Penn Packing Co, Philadelphia
paid 62 cents a pound for the
' black and white-banded sale
’ starter. Donald Bollinger, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bollinger,
Denver R 2, was the exhibitor
and seller of the champion gilt.
ty Farmers National Bank.
EIGHT SCHOOLS
The following boys will rep
resent eight of Lancaster Coun
ty’s nine vo-ag chapters in the
Star Farmer competition:
Howett Seiverling. 17-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs Harold
L Seiverling of Lititz Rl, is a
senior at Warwick High School.
In addition to being piesident
of his local FFA chapter for
the past two years, he is serv
ing as president of the county
chapter Although his farming
interests center around dairy,
he carries projects in laying
hens and has an acre of to
bacco
An honor student at War
wick, Seiverling is described
by his vo-ag teacher Clair Zer
by as “a natural leader and
well-respected by all his teach
ers”
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The average price of the sale
(including the champions) was
22.32 cents a pound The 169
head averaged 217 pounds and
brought total receipts of $B,-
195 69.
Reserve grand champion
a Duroc was shown by last
year’s winner Franklin Ruoss,
Ephrata R2 f and brought 43
cents a pound.
Walter Dunlap & Sons, Inc,
of the Lancaster Livestock Ex
change managed the sale; Wil
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$22.32 per hundredweight. In the ac
tion. photo above, David Bollinger works
his grand Champion Hampshire in front
of the buyers. A few minutes later the
prize pig was sold for 62 cents a pound.
(1 to r) Bollinger, James Dunlap, Wilbur
Hosier and Walter Dunlap, Jr.
$2 Per Year